Swirling Ammonia Lies Below Jupiter's Thick Clouds (IMAGE)

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Swirling Ammonia Lies Below Jupiter's Thick Clouds

Caption

The VLA radio map of the region around the Great Red Spot in Jupiter's atmosphere shows complex upwellings and downwellings of ammonia gas (upper map), that shape the colorful cloud layers seen in the approximately true-color Hubble map (lower map). Two radio wavelengths are shown in blue (2 cm) and gold (3 cm), probing depths of 30-90 kilometers below the clouds. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 3, 2016, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by I. de Pater at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Peering through Jupiter's clouds with radio spectral imaging."

Credit

Michael H. Wong, Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne). Optical: NASA, ESA, A.A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley), and G.S. Orton (JPL-Caltech)

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